Out of the Blue

Happy May Day! It is certainly nice enough around here today to warrant a fine
pagan celebration of the end of winter and the glory of spring. Today is also
International Workers' Day, which is labor day in lots of countries, though not
here in the U.S. where Labor Day was moved in the 19th century to avoid it
seeming like a commemoration of the
Haymarket affair,
which was sort the labor movement's equivalent of the
Kent State shootings.
The weird thing that I never put together before? The Haymarket massacre and the
Kent State shootings, each of which resulted in four civilian deaths, were on
the same date 84 years apart, though it was May 4th, not May 1st. Something to
keep in mind if someone invites you to a protest on Saturday.